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What is here called WIT is a gift for dashing off comic scenes in a few strokes--dashing them off, however, so subtly, delicately and rapidly, that all is over as soon as we begin to notice them.On appellera cette fois esprit une certaine disposition à esquisser en passant des scènes de comédie, mais à les esquisser si discrètement, si légèrement, si rapidement, que tout est déjà fini quand nous commençons à nous en apercevoir.Bergson, Henri / Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the ComicBergson, Henri / Le rire. Essai sur la signification du comiqueLe rire. Essai sur la signification du comiqueBergson, Henri© Presses Universitaires de France, 1959Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the ComicBergson, Henri© 2004 by Kessinger Publishing
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